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Nursing, COVID and the End of Resilience: A Critical Approach

by Michael Traynor

This book looks at the way in which resilience has been promoted as a resource for nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic and addresses its limitations as a response to the potential trauma of working in intense healthcare contexts. Traynor examines the nature of trauma and moral distress in nursing work, which predates the most recent pandemic that brought it into sharp relief, and links this to discussions of resilience in nursing. He examines differing understandings of trauma, identifying and detailing approaches to dealing with it and its aftereffects.In a wide-ranging book that draws together critiques of the happiness industry and PPE scandals, this book lays bare government and managerial reactions to the pandemic, alongside individual, sometimes harrowing, accounts. Its author sets out the impact of working during COVID-19 on the profession and its members in terms of support, solidarity and fragmentation.Drawing on a critical analysis of responses to the pandemic from the government, regulatory bodies, the NHS, and the media, along with primary research with nurses and others who have worked through the pandemic, this book is a vital contribution for all those interested in resilience, trauma, well-being and workforce development in nursing.

The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach: a gothic mystery with an edge of magick

by Jas Treadwell

'Treadwell's book is a magnificent pastiche of 18th-century fiction'The Sunday Times'Tristram Shandy meets Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in a novel that addresses dark disturbing themes with tremendous wit, charm and elegance'Daily Express'Part historical pastiche, part gothic horror, this is an ambitious and stylistically bold 18th-century adventure with shades of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell'SFX'Treadwell's book entertains and impresses . . . He must be heartily congratulated both for performing an extraordinary feat of literary ventriloquism and also for reminding us what historical fiction does best: create an entirely convincing vanished world while also using that world as a lens through which to view the present day'GuardianWHO IS THOMAS PEACH?Ah, reader! -- if you would have us answer THAT question -- What mysteries you shall compel us to expose!It is the year 1785, and a gentleman of modest means has left London for the countryside, to look after his ailing wife.Among his new neighbours, tongues begin to wag. Why does he keep a locked chest under the stairs? Is it really full of forbidden books? And what exactly is the matter with his wife?For the most part, though, the couple live in peace -- until a letter arrives, threatening to cut off their livelihood and expel them from their home.Faced with the prospect of penury -- and perhaps worse -- the gentleman rides out in search of some means to save himself.But fate has other plans for Thomas Peach.A bizarre request brings an encounter with a mysterious young woman, raised from infancy as a rich man's ward, now condemned to the madhouse. As their paths become disturbingly entangled, Mr Peach begins to suspect that in her past lies a dreadful secret . . .Dreadful indeed! -- Yet however fearful the poor child's history -- can her secret be darker, than HIS OWN?

The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach: a gothic mystery with an edge of magick

by Jas Treadwell

'Treadwell's book is a magnificent pastiche of 18th-century fiction'The Sunday Times'Tristram Shandy meets Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in a novel that addresses dark disturbing themes with tremendous wit, charm and elegance'Daily Express'Part historical pastiche, part gothic horror, this is an ambitious and stylistically bold 18th-century adventure with shades of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell'SFX'Treadwell's book entertains and impresses . . . He must be heartily congratulated both for performing an extraordinary feat of literary ventriloquism and also for reminding us what historical fiction does best: create an entirely convincing vanished world while also using that world as a lens through which to view the present day'GuardianWHO IS THOMAS PEACH?Ah, reader! -- if you would have us answer THAT question -- What mysteries you shall compel us to expose!It is the year 1785, and a gentleman of modest means has left London for the countryside, to look after his ailing wife.Among his new neighbours, tongues begin to wag. Why does he keep a locked chest under the stairs? Is it really full of forbidden books? And what exactly is the matter with his wife?For the most part, though, the couple live in peace -- until a letter arrives, threatening to cut off their livelihood and expel them from their home.Faced with the prospect of penury -- and perhaps worse -- the gentleman rides out in search of some means to save himself.But fate has other plans for Thomas Peach.A bizarre request brings an encounter with a mysterious young woman, raised from infancy as a rich man's ward, now condemned to the madhouse. As their paths become disturbingly entangled, Mr Peach begins to suspect that in her past lies a dreadful secret . . .Dreadful indeed! -- Yet however fearful the poor child's history -- can her secret be darker, than HIS OWN?

The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

by James Trefil

Edited by acclaimed science writer and physicist James Trefil, the Encyclopedia's 1000 entries combine in-depth coverage with a vivid graphic format to bring every facet of science, technology, and medicine into stunning focus. From absolute zero to the Mesozoic era to semiconductors to the twin paradox, Trefil and his co-authors have an uncanny ability to convey how the universe works and to show readers how to apply that knowledge to everyday problems.

Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima

by Jeremy Treglown

A monumental reevaluation of the career of John Hersey, the author of HiroshimaFew are the books with as immediate an impact and as enduring a legacy as John Hersey’s Hiroshima. First published as an entire issue of The New Yorker in 1946, it was serialized in newspapers the world over and has never gone out of print. By conveying plainly the experiences of six survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing and its aftermath, Hersey brought to light the magnitude of nuclear war. And in his adoption of novelistic techniques, he prefigured the conventions of New Journalism. But how did Hersey—who was not Japanese, not an eyewitness, not a scientist—come to be the first person to communicate the experience to a global audience?In Mr. Straight Arrow, Jeremy Treglown answers that question and shows that Hiroshima was not an aberration but was emblematic of the author’s lifework. By the time of Hiroshima’s publication, Hersey was already a famed war writer and had won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He continued to publish journalism of immediate and pressing moral concern; his reporting from the Freedom Summer and his exposés of the Detroit riots resonate all too loudly today. But his obsessive doubts over the value of his work never ceased. Mr. Straight Arrow is an intimate, exacting study of the achievements and contradictions of Hersey’s career, which reveals the powers of a writer tirelessly committed to truth and social change.

Control in Finite and Infinite Dimension (SpringerBriefs on PDEs and Data Science)

by Emmanuel Trélat

This book is the result of various master and summer school courses the author has taught. The objective is to provide the reader with an introduction to control theory and to the main tools allowing to treat general control systems. The author hopes this book will serve as motivation to go deeper into the theory or numerical aspects that are not covered in this book. This book might be helpful for graduate students and researchers in the field of control theory.

Hypnotized (Orca Currents)

by Don Trembath

Rufus and his sister Alexa hate each other at the best of times. When Rufus's friend Phil manages to hypnotize Alexa, Rufus is ready to enjoy the power. They begin by ordering Alexa to be kind to her parents and Phil. The plan backfires when Alexa sweetly suggests canceling an expensive family vacation in favor of a week at home playing board games. Then Alexa turns on the charm with Phil and suddenly Rufus has to deal with a lovesick amateur hypnotist. Rufus is certain it can't get any stranger until Alexa, still in her hypnotic state, is kind to the brother she's always hated and Rufus is more confused than he's ever been. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas: From Desi to Brown (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series)

by Arjun Tremblay Mohita Bhatia Yasmin Jiwani

The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas explores the emancipatory potential and pitfalls of digital platforms and how well or how poorly they reflect intra-communal diversities within South Asian diasporic communities.This book brings together an international network of scholars, both established and emerging, to explore South Asian diasporic communities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the U.K. It is a comparative cross-national analysis of the intersection of digital technologies and South Asian diasporas. The book centres on three key themes: the ever-presence of digital spaces and the importance of exploring them as focal points for defining and contesting identities; an exploration of how ‘home’ is represented in and across South Asian diasporic communities; and intra-communal diversity in South Asian diasporic communities. The chapters show how digital spaces sometimes create unprecedented opportunities for diasporic communities to mobilise (multi)cultures, sexuality, race, and queerness within South Asian diasporic communities and to move beyond ‘Desi’ and ‘Brown’ as homogenising identifiers. The contributors also demonstrate that digital spaces can be and have been used to reassert internal hegemonies far from homelands.Examining the discursive meanings of South Asian-ness – ‘Desi’, ‘Brown’, ‘South Asians’– the book foregrounds how it is defined, performed, and contested through digital platforms, in ways that redefine the concept of diaspora in innovative, non-territorialized, polyphonic, variegated, and dialogic ways. A novel contribution to the intersection of global digital inequalities, digital cultures and the South Asian diaspora, this book will be of interest to a wide scholarly audience of digital media, South Asian diaspora, culture and ethnicity, race, and the politics of resistance and counter-hegemonic mobilisations.Chapters 1 and 7 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

RHS Horti Curious: A Gardener's Miscellany of Fascinating Facts & Remarkable Plants

by Ann Treneman

'A brilliant book that in one easy read has turned me into an 'expert' on just about every aspect of plants and gardening' Joe SwiftWhat is xeriscaping? How do you make a seed bomb? Why should you avoid the gympie-gympie tree? When was the first botanical garden created? What type of tulip was once as expensive as a house?Delve into the lush world of Horti Curious, where you will find the answers to of all of these questions, along with hundreds of other entertaining and enlightening facts. Written by gardener and columnist for The Times, Ann Treneman, with the expert advice of the RHS, every page is a verdant oasis brimming with knowledge and inspiration for gardeners and plant lovers.From forgotten folklore to famous gardeners, and from incredible edibles to poisonous plants, this compendium of curiosities celebrates the diverse wonders of horticulture and botany.Beautifully illustrated with botanical diagrams and graphics, this miscellany will inform and delight gardeners and plant lovers. A 'pick and mix' of horticultural knowledge, it ranges from local to global, filled with maps, historical biographies, scientific explorations, plant profiles, fun and unbelievable facts, recipes and tips.

RHS Horti Curious: A Gardener's Miscellany of Fascinating Facts & Remarkable Plants

by Ann Treneman

'A brilliant book that in one easy read has turned me into an 'expert' on just about every aspect of plants and gardening' Joe SwiftWhat is xeriscaping? How do you make a seed bomb? Why should you avoid the gympie-gympie tree? When was the first botanical garden created? What type of tulip was once as expensive as a house?Delve into the lush world of Horti Curious, where you will find the answers to of all of these questions, along with hundreds of other entertaining and enlightening facts. Written by gardener and columnist for The Times, Ann Treneman, with the expert advice of the RHS, every page is a verdant oasis brimming with knowledge and inspiration for gardeners and plant lovers.From forgotten folklore to famous gardeners, and from incredible edibles to poisonous plants, this compendium of curiosities celebrates the diverse wonders of horticulture and botany.Beautifully illustrated with botanical diagrams and graphics, this miscellany will inform and delight gardeners and plant lovers. A 'pick and mix' of horticultural knowledge, it ranges from local to global, filled with maps, historical biographies, scientific explorations, plant profiles, fun and unbelievable facts, recipes and tips.

Battered to Death

by Gayle Trent

The third &“entertaining…and tasty read&” (Entertainment Weekly) in the Daphne Martin Cake mystery series.A recipe…for murder? Life is sweet for Daphne Martin right now, from her flourishing cake-decorating business to a rekindled romance with her high school boyfriend, Ben. All that&’s about to change, courtesy of famously foul-mouthed celebrity chef Jordan Richards. The TV star has come to Brea Ridge, Virginia, for the town&’s lavish cake competition, but he won&’t be leaving under his own steam. After his first master class, Jordan is found bludgeoned with a cake stand and drowned in some very bitter batter. Plenty of townsfolk think the curmudgeonly confectioner had it coming, but the half-baked evidence points to Daphne as a prime suspect. With Ben mulling a new job offer—in Kentucky—Daphne is faced with a multilayered dilemma. She needs to somehow keep her boyfriend, win the cake competition, and sift out the real culprit...before the killer serves up another victim.

Chaos: Une romance paranormale de harem inversé (La bibliothèque des Profanes #1)

by Jb Trepagnier

Une bibliothèque sentiente, un dieu primordial, et une bibliothécaire qui en a assez de vos absurdités. La Bibliothèque du Profane possède tout ce que votre cœur noir désire. Mais nous n'accordons pas de carte de bibliothèque à n'importe qui. Besoin de convoquer un démon ? De relever les morts ? Un clan de vampires qui vous dérange ? Vous appréciez l'érotisme de loup-garou particulièrement épicé ? La Bibliothèque du Profane a tout cela, mais tous ne peuvent pas gérer son contenu (Certaines personnes ne peuvent pas supporter leur érotisme de loup-garou). Cela fait cinq ans que je suis bibliothécaire ici et quand je dis que j'ai tué pour obtenir ce poste, je ne fais pas de l'humour noir. Vous ne pouvez pas emprunter nos livres. Certains d'entre eux sont sentients et n'apprécient guère cela. Nous avons des salles pour exécuter les sorts ou, par les temps qui courent, nous avons également une photocopieuse (les copies sont payantes). Quand une sorcière est entrée en disant qu'elle avait besoin de faire un peu de nécromancie, je ne l'ai pas remise en question. On ne lui aurait pas accordé de carte de bibliothèque si elle s'apprêtait à faire revenir quelqu'un de vraiment mauvais. J'ai aidé avec la nécromancie parce que c'est simplement mon rôle en tant que bibliothécaire. Sauf que ce n'était pas une résurrection normale. C'était l'incarnation physique du Chaos et quand il s'est réveillé, il m'a vue en premier et maintenant il est accro. Le Chaos personifié est un horrible invité de bibliothèque et il ne veut pas partir avec la sorcière qui l'a ramené. Il s'immisce constamment dans des affaires qui ne le concernent pas et il est vraiment friand de l'érotisme de loup-garou. Je ne peux pas le laisser sortir parce que la Bibliothèque du Profane est conçue pour contenir le Chaos. Le reste du monde ne l'est pas. Il est également désastreux pour garder son identité secrète. Un sorc

Feuer und Schwefel: Eine paranormale Akademie Reverse Harem Romanze (Fortuna Akademie #1)

by Jb Trepagnier

Was genau hat meine liebenswerte Mutter gemacht, bevor ich geboren wurde? Ich sollte mit vollem Stipendium nach Harvard gehen. In Chemie war ich immer ausgezeichnet. Es stellte sich raus, dass meine Leidenschaft für Chemie daher kam, dass meine Mutter eine Hexe und Meisterin der Tränke ist. Hab ich erwähnt, dass sie einen Dämon für ein Ritual beschworen hat und Luzifer persönlich erschienen ist? Kann ich dir sagen, wie merkwürdig es ist, von einem erstklassigen Atheisten dahin zu kommen, dass Satan dein Vater ist? Harvard ist vom Tisch. Meine Magie wurde gebunden, als ich ein Baby war. Anscheinend gehe ich stattdessen jetzt zur Fortuna Akademie, weil ich ungebunden bin und Hölle auf Erden verursachen kann. Irgendwas von wegen, die Prinzessin der Hölle zu sein. Ich bin verlobt mit dem, von dem ich dachte, dass er die Katze meiner Mutter und ein Junge aus meiner High School ist, den ich Schwanzblocker getauft hab. Oh, er ist eigentlich eine Höllenkatze und ich hasse ihn. Ich versuche, da rauszukommen. Mein High School Ex ist ein Höllenhund und er ist mit mir in Fortuna. Er ist ungewöhnlich sehr daran interessiert, wer mein Vater ist und er muss gewusst haben, was ich bin, als wir zusammen waren. Tatsächlich gibt es zwei Höllenhundanführer hier, die einfach ein bisschen zu sehr an meinem lieben Vater interessiert sind. Ich hinke in allem jämmerlich hinterher, weil ich als Mensch erzogen wurde. Ein grünhaariger Hexenmeister hat mich unter seine Fittiche genommen, um mir mit meiner Magie zu helfen. Ein Vampirtutor wurde für mich von der Frau arrangiert, die meine Geburt vorhergesagt hat. Alle Antworten über mich kamen der Mutter der Höllenkatze in einer Vision. Sie ist Lilith. Sie bewegt die Schachfiguren im Hintergrund. Sie arrangiert Ehen, wählt meine Kurse und stellt Leute in meinen Pfad. Sie meidet es auch, uns irgendwelche Antworten zu geben. Kann ich eine magische Schule navigieren, wenn ich kein Traini

La Custode di Mostri (I Miei Bellisimi Mostri #1)

by Jb Trepagnier

I clienti della mia clinica veterinaria mi hanno sempre definita una sussurratrice di animali. Non ho mai messo in dubbio che lo fossi. Almeno fin quando non ho iniziato a sentire anche i mostri. Un uomo entrò proprio alla chiusura con un cane malato. Il cane mi rivelò quale fosse il problema ed io riuscii a curarlo. Non avevo idea che il proprietario mi avrebbe rapita. Non avevo idea che avesse una segreta piena di mostri di cui voleva che mi prendessi cura. Ho incontrato un minotauro, un kraken misterioso, una fenice e questo ragno gigantesco. Riesco a sentire anche loro. Se i mostri esistono e posso parlargli, allora io cosa sono davvero?

No Games Chicago: How A Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid

by Tom Tresser

Promoted as a prestigious economic opportunity and often aggressively sought by local leaders, hosting a modern Olympics can in fact be a “city-killer” that racks up billions of dollars in over-budget expenses, degrades the environment, and shreds civil liberties. This book recounts the successful efforts of grassroots organization No Games Chicago to derail Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics in an entertaining case study of local activism with international reach. The group’s detailed strategies and tactics provide a much-needed playbook for scholars, journalists, and activists seeking people-powered alternatives to megaprojects and other tourism-centric economic development schemes.In a time when vital public services are being cut and curtailed, public spaces diminished, and civil liberties threatened by the over-policing of protests, America continues to dedicate billions of public dollars to private development and sports facilities. The activists of No Games Chicago broke new ground in their fight to represent the voice of the people among established local political powers in the decision-making process for Chicago’s Olympic bid. Their story resonates both nationally and globally – over 15 cities around the world have said “No Thank You!” to the Olympics since the success of No Games Chicago.Relevant to students and chroniclers of deliberative democracy, public policy, media for social change, community organizing, and the economics of sport, No Games Chicago is an enjoyable, practical addition to the literature of citizen governance, urban planning, and economic development.

Sir Walter Raleigh: Being A True And Vivid Account Of The Life And Times Of The Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, And Courtier--the Controversial Hero Of The Elizabethian Age

by Raleigh Trevelyan

An enthralling new biography of the most exciting and charismatic adventurer in the history of the English-speaking worldTall, dark, handsome, and damnably proud, Sir Walter Raleigh was one of history's most romantic characters. An explorer, soldier, courtier, pirate, and poet, Raleigh risked his life by trifling with the Virgin Queen's affections. To his enemies—and there were many—he was an arrogant liar and traitor, deserving of every one of his thirteen years in the Tower of London.Regardless of means, his accomplishments are legion: he founded the first American colony, gave the Irish the potato, and defeated Spain. He was also a brilliant operator in the shark pool of Elizabethan court politics, until he married a court beauty, without Elizabeth's permission, and later challenged her capricious successor, James I. Raleigh Trevelyan has traveled to each of the principal places where Raleigh adventured—Ireland, the Azores, Roanoke Islands, and the legendary El Dorado (Orinoco)—and uncovered new insights into Raleigh's extraordinary life. New information from the Spanish archives give a freshness and immediacy to this detailed and convincing portrait of one of the most compelling figures of the Elizabethan era.

Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting

by John E. Triantis

Based on four decades of experience and research, Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting explains how to improve the decision-making process in your organization through the use of better long-term forecasts and decision support. Filled with time-tested methodologies and models, it provides you with the tools to establish the organization, processes, methods, and techniques required for analyzing and forecasting strategic decisions.Describing how to foster the conditions required for forecasts to materialize, this book will help you rank project valuations and select higher value creation projects. It also teaches you how to: Assess the commercial feasibility of large projects Apply sanity checks to forecasts and assess their resource implications Benchmark best-in-class strategic forecasting organizations, processes, and practices Identify project risks and manage project uncertainty Analyze forecasting models and scenarios to determine controllable levers Pinpoint factors needed to ensure that forecasted future states materialize as expected This book provides you with the benefit of the author’s decades of hands-on experience. In this book, John Triantis shares valuable insights on strategic planning, new product development, portfolio management, and business development groups. Describing how to provide world-class support to your corporate, market, and other planning functions, the book provides you with the tools to consistently make improved decisions that are based on hard data, balanced evaluations, well considered scenarios, and sound forecasts.

Corporate Governance: Values, Ethics and Leadership (Routledge Revivals)

by R. I. Tricker

This title was first published in 2000: The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years. The topics covered in this volume include the purpose of the corporation, the board of directors, the role of shareholders, and more contemporary developments like hedge fund activism, the role of sovereign wealth funds, and the development of corporate governance law in what perhaps will become the dominant world economy over the next century, China. The editor has written an introductory essay which briefly describes the intellectual history of the field and analyses the material selected for the volume. The papers which have been selected present what the editor believes to be some of the best and most representative studies of the subjects covered. As a result the volume offers a rounded view of the contemporary state of the some of the dominant issues in corporate governance.

Gender and Pop Culture: A Text-reader (second Edition) (Teaching Gender Ser. #11)

by Adrienne Trier-Bieniek

Gender and Pop Culture provides a foundation for the study of gender, pop culture, and media. This newly updated edition is comprehensive and interdisciplinary, providing both text-book style introductory and concluding chapters written by the editor. The text includes eight original contributor chapters on key topics and is written in a variety of writing styles, discussion questions, additional resources, and more. Coverage includes: Foundations for studying gender and pop culture (history, theory, methods, key concepts); Contributor chapters on social media, technology, advertising, music, television, film, and sports; Ideas for activism and putting this book to use beyond the classroom; Pedagogical features; Suggestions for further readings on topics covered and international studies of gender and pop culture. Gender and Pop Culture was designed with students in mind, to promote reflection and lively discussion. With features found in both textbooks and anthologies, this sleek book can serve as a primary or supplemental reading in courses across disciplines.

Emerging Trends in IoT and Computing Technologies: Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in IoT and Computing Technologies-2023 (Conference Proceedings Series on Intelligent Systems for Engineering Designs)

by Suman Lata Tripathi Devendra Agarwal Anita Pal Yusuf Perwej

Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in IOT and Computing Technologies (ICEICT – 2023) is organised with a vision to address the various issues to promote the creation of intelligent solution for the future. It is expected that researchers will bring new prospects for collaboration across disciplines and gain ideas facilitating novel concepts. Second International Conference of Emerging Trends in IoT and Computer Technologies (ICEICT-2023) is an inventive event organised in Goel Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, India, with motive to make available an open International forum for the researches, academicians, technocrats, scientist, engineers, industrialist and students around the globe to exchange their innovations and share the research outcomes which may lead the young researchers, academicians and industrialist to contribute to the global society. The conference ICEICT- 2023 is being organised at Goel Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, during 12-13 January 2024. It will feature world-class keynote speakers, special sessions, along with the regular/oral paper presentations. The conference welcomes paper submissions from researcher, practitioners, academicians and students will cover numerous tracks in the field of Computer Science and Engineering and associated research areas.

Distributions- und Handelslogistik: Netzwerke und Strategien der Omnichannel-Distribution im Handel

by Christoph Tripp

Dieses Buch zeigt die wichtige Rolle und Systemrelevanz der Distributions- und Handelslogistik vor dem Hintergrund des zunehmenden Einflusses von Convenience, Digitalisierung, Nachhaltigkeit und Resilienz auf Prozesse, Strukturen und Systeme in den Logistiknetzwerken des Handels. Daraus ergibt sich ein immer herausfordernder Zielkonflikt aus notwendigen Kostenoptimierungen und kundenseitig erwarteten Serviceerweiterungen. Mit der dritten Auflage liegt eine völlig überarbeitete und erweiterte Ausgabe des Buches vor, die 125 Abbildungen, 22 Tabellen sowie hunderte Praxis- und Fallbeispiele enthält. Sie trägt vor allem den sich wandelnden globalen Geschäftsmodellen im Handel Rechnung, indem ein stärkerer Fokus auf internationale Beispiele, vor allem aus den USA und China, gelegt wird. Zudem bedingen die zunehmende Vermischung von Einzel- und Großhandelskonzepten und die hohe Relevanz des Onlinehandels sowie des Lieferservices in Großhandelsunternehmen eine verstärkte Berücksichtigung von Beispielen aus dem B2B-Handel. Zusatznutzen: Laden Sie die Springer Nature Flashcards-App mit insgesamt 222 Fragen und Antworten kostenlos herunter und überprüfen Sie Ihr Wissen.

A Esfera

by Manuel Tristante

A tirania de Geptalon não conheceu limites durante muitos anos.        Três amigos serão os encarregados pela derrota do bruxo. Somente eles, os salvadores, podem fazer isso. Nem mesmo Trac, o irmão gêmeo de Geptalon pode vencê-lo. Tanto, que foi derrotado ao tentar.        Com a ajuda de Aglaia, uma jovem rainha, eles embarcarão numa arriscada aventura para conseguirem matar o bruxo. Para isso, deverão destruir a Esfera. Um poderoso artefato mágico que rouba os espíritos dos bruxos para acabar com suas vidas. Nela, reside uma das três partes do coração de Geptalon.        Se prepare para uma viagem cheia de aventuras, personagens inesquecíveis e perigo... Os Drupts, exército pessoal de Geptalon, que tentaram acabar com o Eleito, Miguel, para que ele não cumpra sua missão.        Eles poderão conquistar o seu objetivo entre tantos impedimentos, imprevistos, traições, assim como sonhos estranhos que chegaram a Miguel para deixá-lo sem força? 

Chemistry: A Molecular Approach

by Nivaldo J. Tro

Chemistry: A Molecular Approach presents chemistry visually through macroscopic, molecular and symbolic multi-level images to help you see the connections between chemistry and the world around you. Author Nivaldo Tro uses a consistent problem-solving approach (Sort, Strategize, Solve and Check) throughout the text to show how to analyze a problem and devise a solution strategy. His consistent problem-solving approach and active learning resources are designed to engage you in becoming an expert problem solver and critical thinker. The 6th Edition presents interactive digital features to guide you through key concepts and the problem-solving process. Updates reflect current research on the COVID-19 vaccine and an extensive diversity, equity and inclusion review.

Growing Old in a Better World: Age and Ageing in the Utopian Imagination (Routledge Studies in Cultural History)

by Robert Troschitz

As utopias question social ills and express human wants and unfulfilled dreams, they offer insights into the problems, desires and ideals of a certain time. This book uses this lens to examine cultural representations of ageing and old age in utopian writings from the Renaissance till today.The individual chapters offer detailed analyses and interpretations of numerous utopias from Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) to contemporary science fiction. Through close readings, the book explores age-related fears and ideals and investigates how perceptions of ageing and the life course as well as attitudes towards older people have developed over the centuries. Covering a large time span and a broad range of different utopias, the book identifies long-term developments and also puts certain dreams such as that of ever-lasting youth into a wider perspective. It thus enriches both our understanding of the cultural history of ageing and the history of utopian thought.The book will appeal to scholars and students from the fields of cultural gerontology and utopian studies, as well as literary studies and cultural history more generally.

Arctic Obsession: The Lure of the Far North

by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy

The epic history of the explorers and adventurers who risked -- and sometimes lost -- their lives in the quest to conquer and claim the Arctic.Ever since approximately 325 BC, the Arctic has been the backdrop for tales of triumph and disaster, of hardship and horrors endured by those who were drawn to the northern latitudes. For centuries the major world powers sponsored teams of explorers seeking trade routes as well as the chance to claim new territories. These commercial interests brought them into contact with natives, who at first saw white crews die in the forbidding landscape they called home only to later succumb to disease, alcohol, and the drastic environmental changes wrought by global trade.At a time when global warming is drastically altering the region, Arctic Obsession chronicles an age when the Arctic remained one of the last unconquered places on Earth.

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